Speaking exam techniques

📝 Mini-cours GRATUIT

Speaking exam techniques SL

Don’t spend too much time selecting your photo;
Practice preparing pictures linked to your themes in 15 minutes;
Don’t waste your time writing notes in English in your ‘brief notes’;
Learn your interrogative words (what, when, where, how, why, how many, etc.);
Learn to identify key words in the questions to help you work out what you have been asked;
Practice speaking daily in short chunks of 5-10 minutes and try to do a couple of chunks each day;
If you are less confident with speaking, build sentence chunks that you can apply across different topics;
Pre learn some examples of idiomatic expressions that you can use in different contexts;
Practise with a friend who is in your class;
Listen to the radio, films or audiobooks in Spanish;
Mimic the sounds that you hear when listening to songs;
Read texts out loud to yourself when focusing on pronunciation;
Ask your teacher if you can do some extra practise;
Record some answers to questions about general topics and play them back to yourself;
If you have a list of questions from your class, record those or input them into Quizlet and spend time identifying what each question means or is asking you;
Use apps to help you learn vocabulary;
Make mind maps of useful topic vocabulary and verbs to include;
Make lists of links to Spanish-speaking cultures and countries for the topics you have studied;
Be prepared to demonstrate your IB learner profile attributes in your answers by showing open mindedness or being principled.

Read the information above as it will still help you;
Don’t spend too much time selecting your excerpt;
Practice preparing excerpts at home with 20 minutes of preparation time;
Refer to the themes of the book;
Talk about the characters, their relationships, what they represent in the book and in the social/historical context of the period when the book was written;
Include idiomatic expressions;
Keep checking your genders and agreements, these are significant at HL;
Include examples of more complex structures like direct object pronouns or the subjunctive or compound tenses;
Make cultural comparisons between your culture and a Spanish-speaking culture;
Spend as much time leading up to the exam “immersed” in the language as possible;
Chat away to yourself and practise your speaking answers on your own or with a partner;
Don’t forget to prepare for the general conversation which will relate to one of the 5 themes studied in class;
Be prepared to demonstrate your IB learner profile attributes in your answers by showing open mindedness or being principled.